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Sometimes they aren’t even busted, they just don’t run at spec. There was a period where hardcore overclockers would try to buy cheaper cards and just unlock the cores in firmware and hope to get lucky.

With some processor lines this isn't even a bad gamble on the overclockers' part--economies of scale mean that often there aren't enough actual hotdog-grade chips to fill the demand for the lower-end, so they deliberately set a fully functional chip to pretend to be bad. (C.f. the turn of the century era Celeron 300A which could almost always be overclocked by 50%)